showergel 0.3.0

Companion application for a Liquidsoap radio

Showergel is made to live aside Liquidsoap: while a Liquidsoap script creates a radio stream, Showergel provides complementary features like playlist logging or occasional scheduling, with a (minimalist) Web interface. It is made to run on a Linux box (with systemd) dedicated to your radio stream.

This is work in progress! We’ll welcome both contributions and comments, feel free to write in the Issues or Discussions tabs.

License: GPL3.

Take a look

If you’d like to see what it looks like, check out our demo installation. It is only the visible part of Showergel, running on fake data. You can also use it as a stub back-end when developping that interface.

Quick install

Our automated script can install Liquidsoap and Showergel on an Ubuntu or Debian machine:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/martinkirch/showergel/main/installers/showergel_quickstart.sh && chmod +x showergel_quickstart.sh && ./showergel_quickstart.sh

The script will need to run sudo. It will start the radio, you should hear it as soon as you put sound files in the ~/Music folder. It will also register the radio as a system service, so the radio and its interface will start when the machine reboots, too.

This script installs our “quickstart” LiquidSoap script. After a first try we advise you to have a closer look to Showergel’s documentation on https://showergel.readthedocs.io/.